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Excerpt from The AEneid of Vergil
Notwithstanding the argument of Sir Charles Bowen in the Preface to his Virgil in English Verse, I hold that lineal conformity is not a matter of the first importance, and that verbal closeness, or, at any rate, identity of meaning, is. For this reason I should in any case have chosen Blank Verse as the vehicle best adapted to my purpose: but, besides this, it is the metre of the English Epic, and therefore, in my opinion, the metre most fitted for reproducing the Epic of another nation. Further, as a matter of personal taste, I feel that the deep seriousness, the pensive majesty, the underlying pathos of Virgil's poetry, are funda mentally incompatible with any measure more rapid than the English Iambic I can conceive nothing less like the Virgilian cadence than what Milton terms the jingling sound of like endings nor, on the other band, do I know of anything that savours so much of Virgil as parts of the Blank Verse of Milton and of Cowper.
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